{"id":92059,"date":"2026-01-20T22:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92059\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:57:28","slug":"tigers-re-sign-longtime-erie-bullpen-arm-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/92059\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers re-sign longtime Erie bullpen arm to minor-league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tigers<\/a>Updated: Jan. 20, 2026, 5:24 p.m.|Published: Jan. 20, 2026, 5:16 p.m.\"ErieTim Naughton posted a 2.73 ERA for the Seawolves in 2025.<\/p>\n

DETROIT — The Detroit Tigers are re-upping Double-A Erie mainstay Tim Naughton for another season.<\/p>\n

Naughton, 30, has agreed to a minor-league contract to return to the Tigers for a fourth season.<\/p>\n

Originally drafted by the Baltimore Orioles out of N.C. State University in 2017, Naughton signed with the Tigers before the 2023 season after a brief stint in independent baseball.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s been a bullpen mainstay for the Seawolves for each of the last three seasons. In 2025, he posted a 2.73 ERA in 33 innings, striking out 42 and walking 10.<\/p>\n

TIGERS\u2019 NOTABLE MINOR-LEAGUE SIGNINGS<\/p>\n

RHP\u00a0Tanner Rainey<\/a>\u00a0(re-signed)C Tomas Nido<\/a>\u00a0(re-signed)RHP\u00a0Matt Seelinger<\/a>\u00a0(re-signed)RHP\u00a0Cole Waites<\/a>RHP\u00a0Scott Effross<\/a>RHP\u00a0Dylan File<\/a>RHP\u00a0Inohan Paniagua<\/a>LHP\u00a0Enmanuel De Jesus<\/a>LHP Carlos Pe\u00f1a (re-signed)RHP\u00a0Tyler Mattison<\/a>\u00a0(re-signed)RHP\u00a0Woo-Suk Go<\/a>\u00a0(re-signed)RHP\u00a0Jack Little<\/a>\u00a0(re-signed)LHP\u00a0Sean Guenther<\/a>\u00a0(re-signed)RHP\u00a0Dugan Darnell<\/a>\u00a0(re-signed)RHP\u00a0Burch Smith<\/a>LHP\u00a0Bryan Sammons<\/a>RHP\u00a0Jalen Evans<\/a>C Aaron Antonini<\/a>RHP Tim Naughton (re-signed)<\/p>\n

Evan Woodbery has covered the Detroit Tigers and Major League Baseball for MLive.com since 2016. He has previously covered the Saints\/NFL for The Times-Picayune\/NOLA.com; University of Tennessee athletics for… more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TigersUpdated: Jan. 20, 2026, 5:24 p.m.|Published: Jan. 20, 2026, 5:16 p.m.Tim Naughton posted a 2.73 ERA for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-92059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}